Dietrich Jung

Islamic Modernities in World Society

The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a new understanding of the relation between Islam and modernity, informed by social theory

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781474492638
• ISBN-10: 1474492630
• Artikelnr.: 68208577

Autorenporträt

Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a MA in Political Science and Islamic Studies, as well as a Ph.D. from University of Hamburg, Germany. He was a fellow at the University of Victoria, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the International Islamic University Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, the University of Leipzig and the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. His most recent books are Muslim History and Social Theory: A Global Sociology of Modernity, Palgrave (2017), Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity. Islamic Traditions and the Construction of Modern Muslim Identities, edited with Kirstine Sinclair, Brill (2020) and Der Islam in der Globalen Moderne. Soziologische Theorie und die Vielfalt islamischer Modernitäten, Springer (2021).